RFA Fort Duquesne

History
Name	RFA Fort Duquesne
Launched	28 September 1944, as Queensborough Park
Commissioned	25 November 1944, as Fort Duquesne
Decommissioned	April 1967
Stricken	1967
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 1967
General characteristics
Tonnage	7,220 gross register tons (GRT); 3,911 NT; 7,720 tonnes deadweight (DWT);
Length	439 ft 4 in (133.91 m)
Beam	57 ft 2 in (17.42 m)
Draught	27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion	1 × 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine, 2,500 ihp (1,864 kW); 1 shaft;
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	11,400 nmi (21,100 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	115
Armament	World War II :; 1 × 4 in (100 mm) gun; 8 × 20 mm AA guns;
Aviation facilities	Fitted with a small landing platform aft

RFA Fort Duquesne (A229) was an air stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

The ship was launched on 28 September 1944 and named Queensborough Park, and commissioned on 25 November 1944 and renamed Fort Duquesne. The ship was transferred to the RFA on 16 September 1947.

In 1955 she starred in the film The Battle of the River Plate, playing the German freighter Tacoma, which took the crew off the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee before she was scuttled off Montevideo.

Fort Duquesne was decommissioned in April 1967 and put in reserve at Chatham. She arrived at the Scheldt for demolition at Tamise on 29 June 1967.

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